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HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE: ASI) announced today that Stephen R. Crim, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Mark W. Haushill, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Friedman Billings Ramsey 2009 Capital Markets Fall Investor Conference at the Grand Hyatt ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- United Western Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: UWBK) announced today that Scot T. Wetzel, the Company's chief executive officer, and William D. Snider, the Company's chief financial officer, will present at the 2009 Friedman Billings Ramsay Capital Markets Fall Investor Conference being held ...

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Crane Co. (NYSE: CR) President and Chief Executive Officer, Eric C. Fast, and Timothy J. MacCarrick, Vice President and CFO, will be speaking at ...

MIDDLEBURG, Va., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Akre Capital Management is pleased to announce that the Akre Focus Fund has been added to the venerable Kiplinger 25, the list of highly regarded mutual funds identified by Kiplinger as being standouts among the vast array of mutual funds available to investors. With Chuck Akre having left the helm of the FBR Focus Fund in August of this year, many investors have wondered about the fate of that fund. Similar to the conclusion reached by Adam Bold on his Mutual Fund Store radio broadcast recently, the Kiplinger research team sees ...

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 09/29/09 -- Thunderbird Resorts Inc. ("Thunderbird" or "Group") (FRANKFURT: 4TR)(EURONEXT: TBIRD) announced that it has launched a public offering and private placement of up to 75,000,000 shares of its common stock (or 86,250,000 shares of its common stock if an over-allotment is exercised) (collectively, the "Offer Shares") with an offer price range of $1.00 to $1.25 per common share (the "Offering"). The final offer price will be disclosed on or about 16 October 2009 ("Pricing Date"). If successful, and assuming the midpoint of the offer price range, the Offering is expected to raise approximately $77.7 million in net proceeds, and approximately $89.7 million in net proceeds if the over-allotment option is exercised in full. The Offering consists of (i) a public offering in the Netherlands (including to qualified investors within the meaning of the Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht) as amended ...